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I am thinking a lot about Spanish today because of my South American friends and their attachment to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But it is not a language I could ever read or write.

So I wonder if your intense sentences can be translated with the same political, historical and ethical nuances eg "as a member of Parliament he had supported the call for a full-scale investigation into Dutch atrocities. However, once appointed minister, he quickly changed his mind. He now claimed that such research would bring harm to our relationship with Indonesia. And that is not in the Dutch interest. In other words, business comes before coming to terms with Dutch decolonization